For the past decade, Jeff Miller has been content to fly under the radar, toe the party line and pander to the establishment Republican leadership, take his $13,384.62/month paycheck from the public treasury, and go home. It's time for a change.

Note: this page will be updated periodically as Jeff Miller's big-government record grows.

Tracking the Money

As of 1/31/2012, the majority (72%) of contributions thus far have come from influences outside the state of Florida, the largest amounts being from the DC area. But after 10 years running in government insider crowds, what are we to expect?

Tracking the Votes

Miller voted with the Republican establishment to raise the debt ceiling yet again by over $2 trillion in one bill and create the failed, un-Constitutional "Super committee", kicking the can further down the road for our posterity to be saddled with.

Miller cavedmultipletimeson limiting the budget, choosing to resume business as usual and proving that even after the wave of conservative voters demanding an end to runaway spending, he just doesn't get it. The people of this great state and nation want representatives willing to stand on principle and say NO to the continual and irresponsible accrual of debt, and Miller has shown his incapability to do so.

Miller voted for government healthcare, only in a different manner than Obama. He continues to support the Republican "Repeal and Replace" bill. The first question conservatives must ask is "Why replace it with anything?" The second is "Why maintain the Pre-Existing Conditions mandate?" This mandate is arguably the most dangerous Obamacare stipulation in the first place, and will inevitably lead to a single-payer system.

Miller voted for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (or NDAA), which gave President Obama the power to arrest and hold U.S. citizens, without charges or trial, indefinitely. This was a vote for Presidential authority to perpetuate endless war without the approval of Congress, and has been said to represent the largest hand-over of unchecked war authority from Congress to the executive branch in modern American history. This blatantly violates the Constitutional requirement for declaration of war, as well as the War Powers Resolution. Esteemed Congressman Ron Paul vocalized these concerns in his floor speech titled "The Last Nail".

Miller voted for the anti-conservative REAL ID Act of 2005, which was deceptively titled the Immigrant Security Standards bill. Under the guise of restricting illegal immigration, this bill requires the federal government to establish a new database on ALL citizens, violating the Fourth (4th) Amendment. As the conservative Cato Institute argued, "the national ID created by the REAL ID Act would not add significantly to the country's protections against terrorism but, by placing sensitive information in nationally accessible government databases, it would invade Americans' privacy and expose them to Identity theft". When given the chance to reverse this mistake in multiplesessions with the REAL ID Repeal Acts, he refused.

Miller voted for Charlie Rangel's $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending bill. Opponents correctly argued that "The Nation's public debt and unemployment, combined, has risen by a shocking 40% [because of] literally trillions of dollars in additional spending under the Democrats' stimulus, energy, and health plans... We could have chosen a better policy of stimulating private-sector growth creating twice the jobs at half the price." Miller may not always support "big socialism" i.e. TARP bailouts, but he has no problem supporting "little socialism", aka "Republican socialism". He may claim that he is for the free market, but his record states the opposite.